I well remember those days Noumenon. We've both been around here for a long time, more than 13 years. I well remember the "frog in the pot" analogy. I wasn't doing any of the laughing. Clearly, you were right then, just a little early.
But what wasn't clearly visible then is clearly visible now. Your "prophecy" has been fulfilled. Now that the matter is clearly visible, we can't pretend any longer that it isn't really there — nor deny that, as Americans, we have a right, even a duty, to take measures to restore the public order.
Amen to that.
You’re right, betty. There was always a small corps of realists, students of history and human nature who got the lessons.
When you contemplate the real history of the last century, you know beyond a doubt that wishful thinking and whistling past the graveyard more often than not will get you enslaved or dead.
We now know that over 220 million - that’s 220 MILLION - people have been killed by their own governments since the beginning of the 20th century. Not casualties of war, but casualties of an evil that now appears to have the upper hand here today. It’s that unappeasable appetite to control - and ultimately to consume - mankind.
As our friend Lurker has said - there’s only one way this can end...